(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
UPDATE: The Denver Post finds some similar problems with Kellner’s narrative: Between 2020 and 2021, Colorado saw an 8% increase in crime against persons, according to state public safety data, compared to an increase of 12% in Kellner’s district. Judicial District 1 (Jefferson and Gilpin counties) saw a 5% increase, Judicial District 2 (Denver) saw […]
Back in July, a Facebook post from GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea went quasi-viral as a uniquely silly attempt to project “everyman” appeal: hankering for sushi from the local Denver suburban strip mall, O’Dea saddled up the horses and rode through the suburban streets of southwest Denver to relieve his craving–just like you would […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii sit down once again with House Speaker Alec Garnett to talk about the next generation of House leadership and his predictions for the 2022 election. Later, we update you on everything you need to know about the latest in the major […]
(Guess they’re done pretending — Promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: Here comes the backpedal! NEW: @heidiganahl’s campaign tells me they cancelled participation in this event after seeing this flyer, says there were no other speakers listed when they accepted invite. #cogov #copolitics https://t.co/QUU9CF6OsE — Ernest Lee Luning (@eluning) October 14, 2022 But remember, election […]
NBC News reports for their nationwide audience on the fake news phenomenon that has swept up dozens of Republican candidates this year all over the country including here in Colorado, the alleged threat of students “identifying as animals” disrupting public schools: At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 […]
We were taking our time, catching up on our political news today, when a sentence just reached out and socked us in the face like one of Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s out-of-left-field batshit insane theories on education reform. Sandra Fish did a comparison of the candidates in CO-07 for The Colorado Sun that was mostly a […]
Three and a half weeks out from Election Day 2022, let’s take another read of the Colorado Treasurer race (here are the results from two weeks ago). Will incumbent Treasurer Dave Young hold off the challenge from Republican multitool in search of a win Lang Sias? *Remember, as always with our totally non-scientific polls, we […]
With ballots about to drop, it’s time to get another temperature check on the Colorado attorney general race (here’s the last reader survey on this race two weeks ago). Who will win the race between incumbent Democratic AG Phil Weiser and Republican challenger DA John Kellner? *Remember, as always with our totally non-scientific polls, we […]
UPDATE #2: In a unanimous vote, the committee voted to subpoena Trump himself. From The New York Times: “He is required to answer for his actions,” said Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, at the end of what was possibly the panel’s final public session. “He is required to […]
After two contentious debates in the last week between the candidates running for Colorado Secretary of State, this often-overlooked but crucial downballot statewide race is finally getting its share of attention this week. Incumbent Secretary of State Jena Griswold is facing off against former GOP Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson in a race that has […]
As anyone even casually following national politics is aware by now, Republicans once thought to have a lock on winning back the U.S. House and Senate during the 2022 midterms elections are approaching Election Day facing serious deficiencies in their fielded candidates, as well as persistent distrust of the Republican brand after the violence at […]
UPDATE #2: Live from Vail: —– UPDATE: Via Sen. John Hickenlooper, a Colorado fashion shot if there ever was one: Rep. Joe Neguse is the most Colorado dressed of the bunch, with Hickenlooper in second and Sen. Michael Bennet coming in a bookish but respectable third. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack gets it totally wrong […]
Many Colorado voters will be receiving a ballot in the mail one week from today. As we inch closer to actually voting in Colorado, it looks like the political environment is trending in the right left direction. According to the prognosticators at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball (The University of Virginia Center for Politics), there’s significant movement […]
A press release from Democratic CD-3 candidate Adam Frisch, running hard and closing the gap in the polls down the home stretch against freshman GOP kaleidoscope of crazy Rep. Lauren Boebert, announces the endorsement of Frisch by Boebert’s rival in the 2022 GOP primary, state Sen. Don Coram of Montrose: In a letter endorsing Frisch, […]
Republican Attorney General candidate John Kellner and his friends at the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) have spent months making a big deal about the rise in auto thefts in Colorado. This is the heart of Kellner’s pitch to voters in arguing that he would keep Colorado “safer” than incumbent Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser. […]
Let’s start today’s lesson with three numbers: 17, 17, 18. In the three most recent publicly-available polls in the Colorado race for Governor, these are the margins in which incumbent Democrat Jared Polis is shown to be leading Republican challenger Hiedi Heidi Ganahl. According to a new poll out today from Marist, Polis now leads […]
As the Colorado Sun’s Jesse Paul reports, a Denver district court judge has thrown a monkeywrench into the gears of the GOP’s revenge recall campaign against Sen. Kevin Priola of Adams County, ruling after weeks of effort that the campaign should have waited until the new district boundaries Sen. Priola is set to represent are […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Anna Lynn Winfrey reports, Colorado freshman GOP tempest in a tinfoil hat Rep. Lauren Boebert appeared this weekend at the Pueblo County GOP’s annual fundraising dinner, bringing with her one of the only members of Congress who can hold a candle to Boebert as a walking, talking far-right freakshow: Rep. Matt […]
As Natalie Allison reports for POLITICO, one of two major national Republican Super PACs associated with GOP efforts to win majority control of the U.S. Senate has at last contributed some money toward efforts to help Republican Joe O’Dea defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet: The question has remained for months about whether the Senate […]
Mary Shinn of the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog reports on continuing strife among El Paso County Republicans, the fallout from the county party’s takeover by “America First” fringe-right activists led by controversial but durable chair Vickie Tonkins. The acrimony between the Tonkins wing of the party and the would-be “establishment” wing peaked again during […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, your hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii talk at length with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser about his re-election campaign, law enforcement issues in Colorado, and why you should brace yourself for the next Supreme Court docket. Later, we talk more about Furry Lago and Hiedi Heidi Ganahl’s […]
Republican gubernatorial candidate Hiedi Heidi Ganahl spent much of the last 10 days obsessing about a mythical problem of “furries” in classrooms across Colorado, in the process turning her campaign radioactive and cementing her reputation as a complete lunatic who shouldn’t be anywhere the levers of government. Ganahl has recently backed away from Furry-Lago after […]
Republican Erik Aadland is a strange dude with strange friends and awful policy positions who is running for Congress in CO-07 behind a vague narrative centered around a picture of a lion and his belief that Erik Aadland should be in Congress (Aadland has said that he “doesn’t have time” to start out running for […]
It’s that time of year in southeast Colorado, politicians eager to show they’re not afraid of creepy crawlies: Kidding aside, we assume no tarantulas were harmed in the making of this photo. The tarantula certainly hopes so.
Even before Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea won the nomination in the June 28th primary, his campaign was under fire from labor groups who criticized the employee safety record of O’Dea’s company Concrete Express, Inc. Since O’Dea has no political experience, his record as the owner of CEI is most of what voters have […]
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